"The reason Kneecap is being targeted is simple — we are telling the truth and our audience is growing," the Northern Irish hip-hop group says.

KNEECAP STATEMENT: Since our statements at Coachella — exposing the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people — we have faced a coordinated smear campaign. For over a year, we have used our shows to call out the British and Irish governments' complicity in war crimes.… pic.twitter.com/mBojb5QBOP

The band from Northern Ireland said on social media that those messages were supposed to have appeared during its Weekend 1 set as well, but "our messaging on the US-backed genocide in Gaza somehow never appeared on screens either.